Gearing.



T. G. BRADY.

GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2, 1906.

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T. G. BRADY.

GEARING.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. z, 1906.

1,004,355. Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2. E :1; IE- 5 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TERENCE G. BRADY, OF PRAIRIE SPRING TOWNSHIP, JACKSON COUNTY, IOWA.

GEARING.

To all whom it may concern:

citizen of the United States, residing at Prairie Spring township, in the county of Jackson and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gearing, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide means for so hanging the clothes wringer that it may be adjusted to convenient and operative relation to the washing machine and to a number of'tubs in which the clothes are washed.

Another object is to provide means for sustaining the washing machine, tubs and other vesseF during the washing and wringing, and urther means for utilizing the power used for operating the washing machine to operate also the wringer.

A more detailed and specific description will be set out in the following specification when read in connection with the drawings accompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my device showing one tub and a washing machine in connection with my device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section ,of one of the standards and part of the attachment to the standard. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a modified form of the wringer mounted upon its frame. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modified form of applying power to operate the wringer and of mounting the wringer. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a detail, of the modified structure of Fig. 4, showing the means for operating the longitudinally movable wringer from a relatively longitudinally non-movable shaft. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view of one of the sleeves, on line 6--6 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings 2 and 4 represent the supporting standards. These stand ards are connected together by a bar 5. For the purpose of forming a bench or support for the washing machlne and the tubs or other washing apparatus, there is provided a pipe or bar 6. The legs 8 are ,connected to the standards 2 and 4 by a brace 10 and at the top by a cross bar 12. The cross bars are also united together by a central bar 14 and are stayed to the standards by braces 15. A convenient mode of constructing the bench is by uniting as pipe together by the usual couplings. T e union 0 the bars 5, 6 and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 2, 1906. Serial No. 341,706.

Patented Sept. 26, 1911.

HEISSUED 14 secured together as set out and to the standards 2 and 4 with the legs 8 form the supporting bench for the tubs or other washing apparatus 16 and the washing machine l8.

The standard 2 is preferably formed of a tube having therethrough a slot 20 and around the standard a short tube 22. To the tube 22 is secured a block 24 by bolts 25, passing through the block and hooked around the tube 22. The outer ends of the bolts 25 have thereon tightening nuts, whereby the block is rigidly secured upon the movable tube 22. Through the tube 22 and the slot 20 in the standard 2 is a pin 28, which is rigidly fixed in the block 24. Below the block 24 is attached to the standard 2 another block 30 by bolts 32. In the standard 2 is transversely fixed a plate 27 upon which is seated a coil spring 21. The spring engages with the pin 23 and keeps the pin normally in the upper part of the slot 20 for purposes presently to appear.

In the standards 2 and 4 are secured two bars 34 and '35. Upon these bars is adjustably mounted a wringer 36 in such a manner that the wringer may be moved to any position along the bars.

The mode of adjustably attaching the wringer to the two bars is preferably by fastening a block having a hook portion 31 to each of the side bars 33 of the wringer 36. The block consists of the body 37 and a hook portion 31. .The books engage the upper bar 34 and slide thereon. The lower end of the wringer is secured to the lower bar 35 by clamps 41 secured to the side bars 33 of the wringer and provided with set screws 43.

For the purpose of operating the wringer, there is con led to the wringer shaft 38, a shaft 40, whlch extends through a rotatable collar secured in the block 24 and upon it is a mounted pulley 42. This shaft 40 is of sufficient length to reach from the pulley to nearly thestandard 4 and is preferably made square so as to slide through the square opening in the pulley 42 and still furnish the means whereby the pulley may be rotated.

In Fig. 4 is shown a modified form for applying the power to operate the wringer. In this the wringer 36 is mounted on the two bars 34 and 35, the shaft 40 however is not movable endwise but is journaled in the block 24 at one end and at the other end in a block 65 attached to the standard 4. This shaft is square except where it is journaled in the blocks 24 and 65 and passes through the side bars 33 of the wringer. Upon one end of the shaft is rigidly mounted the pulley 42. Within the wringer side bars 33 are secured sleeves 66 shown in Figs. 5 and 6 which are round on the outside and square or the shape of the shaft 40 on the. inside, andareprovided at one end with a gear wheel 68 and a .rib 70 at the other end so as 10 to prevent the movementof the sleeves endwise. The gear 68 meshes in with the gears 72 on the wringer, and when the shaft 40 is rotated it will operate the rollers 75 of the wringer. When this mode of operating the wringer is used, then the wringer may be straps to nal edas-hereinbefore set out. J ournaled in the block is a shaft 44 3o chine shaft 50 is secured a pulley 52 which is other arm of the lever is secured a rod 56 attached at its other end to a lever 53 upon upon which is mounted at its outer en a drive pulley 45, to which is secured a sma ler pulley 46 To the ordinary washing mamounted in frictional contact with a pulley 48 on the shaft 44. To the pin 28 is secured a rod 54 which extends down and is attached to one of the arms of a lever 55. To. the

which rod is attached to the arm of another lever 60 secured to a leg 8. Upon the other arm" of the lever 60 is secured a treadle 58 which extends the length of the bench and is the left leg 8. The treadle is further sustained by a spring 57 secured to the bar 6.

The manner of operating my device is substantially as follows ;The washing machine is started by applyingpower to the pulle 45 which rotates the pulley 48 upon the sha t 44 and this rotates the pulley 52 by its frictional contact therewith and this in turn rotates the driving shaft of the washing machine.

-When the clothes are sufiiciently washed .in the machine, then the wringer 36 is adjusted over the tub 16 by operating the set screw 43 and releasing the clamp 41 then sliding the wringer along on the two bars 34 and 35 with the hooks 31 in engagement,

with the bar 34. As the wringer is moved along the bar 34 it draws with it the shaft 40 coupled f to the wringer shaft 38, partly throu h the block 24 and pulley 42. If the modih ed form of mounting the wringer be used, then the set screw 78 is operated and releases the wringer and allows the wringer to be moved anywhere along on the bars 34 and 35. The operator then places his foot on the treadle58 which turns the lever 60 .and pulls the rod 56 to the left and thisopthe wringer he raises his foot oil from the.

treadle 58 and the spring 21 comes into action and raises the block 24, the tube 22 and with it the pulley 42 out of frictional contact with the pulley 46. The spring 21 keeps the pulley 42 and 46 out of contact when the wringer is not in use.

When it is desired to use the wringer over some other tub then the wringer is moved along on the bars 34 and 35 as before stated over that tub. If there are a large number then the bench will be made long enough to accommodate as many as desired.

It will be seen by this mode of construction and arrangement that there will be fur nished a substantial bench on which to sustain the washin -machine, tubs and other apparatus and t e wringer can be conveniently adjusted for any position above the tubs or washing machine and in convenient position and always ready for ,immediate use, and further it will be seen that the power that is used to operate the washing machine can immediately be brought into proper relation to operate the wringer.

' Having now described my invention what 5 I claim is 1. In a device of the character described,

5 the combination with a support, a machine longitudinall adjustable upon said support and means or operating the machine by power in any adjusted position thereof, said means including a shaft connected to said machine and a pulley, said shaft'and said machine having a sliding relation to each other, said pulley being relatively fixed upon the support, and a second pulley adapted to be-thrown into and out of engagement 'with said first named pulley. 2. The combination with a support, a machine longitudinally movable thereon, a l

shaft adapted to engage said machine in any of its longitudinal adjusted positions, a pulley on said sh relatively longitudinally non-movable, drive pulley and means for throwing the pulley on the shaft and the drive pulley into or out of engagement,

as desired.

3. In combination with a'support, a machine mounted thereon, a second machine slidable with relation to thesupport, means for actuating said second machine in any of its adjusted'positions, means for operating the first named machine, power driven means for operating the actuating means of the second named machine and the first said machines, verticall slidable spring- 5 named machine, means whereby the actuatpressed means to norma y hold the actuating means of the second named machine is mg means of the second named machine out normally held out of contact with said of contact with said power driven means,

power driven means," and means to enable and means for operating said spring-pressed said second machine: actuating means to be means to bring. said actuating means into 20 operated by said ower driven means. contact with said power driven means.

4. In combination with a support,- a .ma- In testimony whereof I have signed my chine mounted thereon, a second machine name to this specification in the presence of s'lidably mounted on said support, means for two subscribing witnesses.

actuating said second mach ne, in any of its TERENCE G. BRADY. adjusted positions, means for operating the Witnesses: first named machine, power driven means M. M. CADY,

for operating actuating-means of both of C. D. ROEHL.

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